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Speaker 2: Welcome in What'll Drive with Me? Great Episode two six
Speaker 2: A ton to do today, and I know we might
Speaker 2: have some new viewers or some curious first time viewers
Speaker 2: based on some of the Aaron Rodgers conversation from our
Speaker 2: most recent episode. I am not actually going to discuss
Speaker 2: anything revolving Aaron and what he said about Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 2: on today's show, because Aaron's gonna speak again today. On
Speaker 2: McAfee yesterday, at the end of season press conference for
Speaker 2: the Jets, Aaron Rodgers said in quick succession that the Packers,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry the Jets quote need to get all the
Speaker 2: bit out of the building that doesn't have to do
Speaker 2: with winning, and then immediately said he would address his
Speaker 2: feud with late night host Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow on the
Speaker 2: McAfee show. So I'm not sure exactly how you square
Speaker 2: that circle. But Aaron Rodgers, nothing if not lacking for
Speaker 2: some self awareness, I'm sure will attempt to, I said
Speaker 2: last week. My guess is he would if I'm on
Speaker 2: McAfee's show today and play dumb, act like he wasn't
Speaker 2: alleging what he was obviously alleging, be a little koy,
Speaker 2: won't be pressed with many hard follow ups and move on.
Speaker 2: Kimmel last night said that he would accept Aaron's apology
Speaker 2: if he apologized, I wouldn't hold my breadth there, And
Speaker 2: so hopefully we don't need to discuss it on Thursday,
Speaker 2: but if we do, we'll do it then because he's
Speaker 2: gonna talk later today. Here is what missed the cut
Speaker 2: for today's show. Missed the cut lebron with a Dunk
Speaker 2: of the Year candidate ja what a lost wasted season
Speaker 2: undergoing season ending surgery on a labrum, and Michigan the
Speaker 2: best team all year long. The clear cut, most dominant
Speaker 2: run game, defense, and dominant team. They I don't want
Speaker 2: to say coast because it was a good game, but
Speaker 2: they win the National Championship Game in dominant fashion and
Speaker 2: probably knocked Michael Pinnick back down to the middle of
Speaker 2: the NFL draft instead of people were talking about him
Speaker 2: maybe being a late first round pick. But where we
Speaker 2: are going to start today is where we start almost
Speaker 2: every show this time of year, Demons the NFL. The
Speaker 2: playoffs are set. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, despite everything you said about the Bills being cooked
Speaker 3: at six and six, they are going to the playoffs
Speaker 3: and as the hottest team in the NFL right now.
Speaker 3: So are you excited about a potential Round two matchup
Speaker 3: with the Bills and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping for it, and I'm not even hoping for
Speaker 2: it because I'm gonna I'm not acting like the Bills
Speaker 2: are some super easy team to beat. That's not what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I just think it's the best, the best theater,
Speaker 2: It would be the best game it. Also, I think
Speaker 2: the ideal Round two matchups in the NFL are the
Speaker 2: best ones we could get. Not necessarily what I'm thinking
Speaker 2: we will get, but the best ones we could get
Speaker 2: in the NFC are Niners Rams. That's the best one.
Speaker 2: That's the team. The Niners in Round one theoretically could
Speaker 2: play the Packers, Rams, Eagles or Bucks. The only team
Speaker 2: that I think could give them a game, and the
Speaker 2: team they're rooting against playing is the Rams. For that
Speaker 2: matchup to happen, the Cowboys would have to beat the Packers,
Speaker 2: which they will, and the Rams would have to beat
Speaker 2: the Lions, which I think they can. So in the NFC,
Speaker 2: the best matchup we could get is Niners Rams, and
Speaker 2: then Cowboys Eagles would be theoretically the best, but the
Speaker 2: Eagles are so cooked and we'll talk about them later.
Speaker 2: Cowboys Bucks might be a better game. In the AFC,
Speaker 2: all four favorites winning is the best is the best
Speaker 2: football scenario. Now, I would like to see CJ. Stroud
Speaker 2: and the Texans how far they can take it. But CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud and the Texans facing arrested Ravens team, which is
Speaker 2: who they would face if both the Bills and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs win their games, is probably a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 2: The Cleveland Browns facing arrested Ravens team, now that's a
Speaker 2: different story. The Browns a divisional rival who has beaten
Speaker 2: them this year. That would be a really good game,
Speaker 2: and we will get that game. If the Chiefs and
Speaker 2: the Bills both win. Chiefs Bills is also the best game.
Speaker 2: And the way we don't get that game is if
Speaker 2: the Chiefs lose. We'll talk more about that in a moment,
Speaker 2: or if the Bills lose to the Steelers, which because
Speaker 2: they're the Bills, they could but they absolutely shouldn't because TJ.
Speaker 2: Watts out and it's the Steelers who are very happy
Speaker 2: to be their team. So let's now, so I am
Speaker 2: hoping for that. It is the best matchup, it's the
Speaker 2: best theater, it's two of the best players in the league.
Speaker 2: And now let's talk about why I was wrong on
Speaker 2: the Bills. So I did not think that they would
Speaker 2: get they could win five straight because I did not
Speaker 2: think Josh Allen would play five straight, clean, good football games.
Speaker 2: I was right about the second half of that, but
Speaker 2: they didn't need that to win five straight, and credit
Speaker 2: to them for that. That was a team that seemed
Speaker 2: to be coming a part at the seams in some ways,
Speaker 2: still does have a really weird dynamic between their two
Speaker 2: best players, Alan and Diggs. That doesn't seem to be
Speaker 2: fixed in any capacity, and they are winning despite that.
Speaker 2: And I guess you got to give credit to Sean
Speaker 2: McDermott who was coaching for his job this last month
Speaker 2: and was able to keep it. Now, Bills fans, because
Speaker 2: they're always mad at me, are mad me for this opinion,
Speaker 2: but I believe it to my core. Had the Jags
Speaker 2: won in the one o'clock window, then the Bills would
Speaker 2: have been playing a win and you're the two seed.
Speaker 2: Lose and you're out of the playoffs game. That's what
Speaker 2: the scenario I thought was gonna happen this weekend. The
Speaker 2: Steelers win Saturday, they did, The Jags win Sunday, they
Speaker 2: obviously didn't, and in the Bills it's either two seed
Speaker 2: or nothing. If they were playing under those under that context,
Speaker 2: I think they would have folded after the third terrible
Speaker 2: Josh Allen turnover. I do they had the cushion of
Speaker 2: knowing they're in the playoffs no matter what, and if
Speaker 2: they lose that game, they're just running back this exact game,
Speaker 2: Dolphins hosting them in Round one, and I think that
Speaker 2: gave them a little more freedom in that football game.
Speaker 2: But the Bills are a tricky one man. Their best
Speaker 2: player by far is their least reliable player. But he's
Speaker 2: the reason they won that game, and all aside from
Speaker 2: the punt return, and also the reason they were positioned
Speaker 2: to lose that game. The Allen mistakes in that game
Speaker 2: were cartoonish. The first pick was awful. The second pick
Speaker 2: Bills fans trying to be like, oh, it's like a
Speaker 2: punt because it was fourth down. It was fourth and two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole like, oh, it's like a punt that's on
Speaker 2: fourth and twenty or third and twenty. On fourth and two,
Speaker 2: you're not trying to punt if you're going for it,
Speaker 2: you're trying to pick up the two yards leaving points
Speaker 2: on the board at the end of the half. Held
Speaker 2: the touchdown pass pot thirty feet in the air could
Speaker 2: have been another in zone interception, and the fumble wasn't
Speaker 2: a terrible play by Josh. It was more a great
Speaker 2: play by Miami. But the flip side to that is
Speaker 2: his ability to use his legs and get those first
Speaker 2: downs late in the game was fantastic. He threw for
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty yards. I mean they it was
Speaker 2: the roller coaster Josh Allen experience instead of over the
Speaker 2: course of a month or a season, over the course
Speaker 2: of four quarters and you just take the good with.
Speaker 3: The battle problem with Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs, they're
Speaker 3: gonna be hard.
Speaker 2: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: I think that in a weird way, that thing that uh,
Speaker 3: that Stefan Diggs brother did Trayvon, I think it was
Speaker 3: kind of beneficial for the Bills in a sense, like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Diggs is always super emotional. I feel like
Speaker 3: he kind of owes Josh Allen some some niceness for
Speaker 3: the rest of the season. I don't know, some good grace.
Speaker 2: Well he I okay, I mean, listen, he hasn't had
Speaker 2: one hundred yard games since the week five of the year,
Speaker 2: Week six, and you ar me and go ahead.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, Stefan Diggs and like by
Speaker 3: this time, he's he's slamming helmets, he's throwing tankers on
Speaker 3: the sideline, you know, causing a fuss for the team.
Speaker 3: But you know I did for a bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, So mate, listen, that's an interesting take. Maybe that's
Speaker 2: the case. He hasn't talked to the media in weeks.
Speaker 2: It's a weird spot. If you saw when Josh overthrew
Speaker 2: them on what would have been a ninety yard touchdown,
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs was smiling and laughing after it and did
Speaker 2: like the little like airplane thing running down the field after,
Speaker 2: which I thought was super odd. He then also made
Speaker 2: a huge, a huge play later in the game that
Speaker 2: to me is a tenuous spot. But they've won these
Speaker 2: games despite it, and so it is. If you would
Speaker 2: have told me that I was going to be wrong
Speaker 2: about the Bills, I think everyone would have thought, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: it's because Josh Allen goes unconscious and they rip off
Speaker 2: this winning streak. On this winning streak, Josh Allen is
Speaker 2: averaging two hundred and twenty yards per game, has five touchdowns,
Speaker 2: five picks, and has an eighty two passer rating. It
Speaker 2: is the opposite of what you would have thought they
Speaker 2: were gonna do in the last four games. By the way,
Speaker 2: since the Kansas City game, it's the numbers are actually
Speaker 2: a touch worse. And so it is a bizarre situation
Speaker 2: where their best player is playing some of his worst
Speaker 2: football of the year and the team is playing its
Speaker 2: best football of the year, and so maybe that makes
Speaker 2: them scary because they're winning without Josh Allen going super nova,
Speaker 2: which we know he can, but they are a puzzling team.
Speaker 2: And Bill's listen, Bills fans, You're gonna get the Chiefs
Speaker 2: in your building for a shot to go to the
Speaker 2: AFC title game. There's nothing you could ask for more
Speaker 2: than that. And we'll see if you guys can close
Speaker 2: it out. All right, next, All.
Speaker 3: Right, So the Eagles started off ten and one and
Speaker 3: are now eleven and six and are being exposed on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis. Just lost to the Giants. Their offensive
Speaker 3: stars are injured, and you said their defense might be
Speaker 3: the worst in the league right now, and what world
Speaker 3: should they be favored against three favored against your boy
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield about three points?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, the Bucks are on the road team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, but I mean the Bucks are not a
Speaker 2: good team. And this is just based in the overall
Speaker 2: talent of the rosters and what people thought of these
Speaker 2: teams before the year. But you're correct. The right side
Speaker 2: of this right now is the home dog and it's
Speaker 2: like the Buck And the other part of this is
Speaker 2: Baker is hurt. And if you watched Week eighteen, I
Speaker 2: mean he went into the game, got hurt even more
Speaker 2: in the game. They didn't exactly play great in this
Speaker 2: football game against Carolina. They won nine to nothing, you know,
Speaker 2: on the strength of three field goals and a fumble
Speaker 2: into the end zone by Carolina that should have been
Speaker 2: a touchdown and another touchdown called back. But Philly is
Speaker 2: falling apart. And so I've got a question that might
Speaker 2: seem outlandish, might seem unfair. Are we sure Nick Sirianni's
Speaker 2: the coach there next year? Because I'm not. I was.
Speaker 3: I was just about the same man, Like, what's what's
Speaker 3: going on? He just he was just in the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl last year. I don't understand why everybody's like he's
Speaker 3: about to lose his job. He's losing the locker room.
Speaker 3: What's what's happened over the last eight nine months. I'm confused?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So let's just keep in mind the
Speaker 2: Eagles trigger historic trigger on coaches. So Andy Reid was
Speaker 2: there fourteen years. They went to a super Bowl, they
Speaker 2: went to five NFC title games, They had I think
Speaker 2: nine double digit win seasons, ten super bowls. Okay, he
Speaker 2: had one down year going four and twelve, and they
Speaker 2: fired him. You can say two down years because the
Speaker 2: year before they were eight to eight but only one
Speaker 2: truly awful year, and they fired him. Chip Kelly was
Speaker 2: ten and six and went to the playoffs ten and
Speaker 2: six again the very next year and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Started the next year six and nine, and they fired
Speaker 2: him before the season ended. Doug Peterson in year two
Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl with a backup quarterback. The next
Speaker 2: year won the playoffs and or won the playoffs, made
Speaker 2: the playoffs and won a playoff game with a backup quarterback.
Speaker 2: Then next year made the playoffs again. The following year
Speaker 2: was four and a live and they fired him. So, Siri,
Speaker 2: the idea that Sirianni making the super Bowl buys him
Speaker 2: massive time is not what their history is now. He's
Speaker 2: never missed the playoffs, he's never finished below five hundred.
Speaker 2: But if you go from ten to one to losing
Speaker 2: six of seven to finish your year including Drew Lock
Speaker 2: beating you, Kyler Murray beating you, Tyrod Taylor beating you,
Speaker 2: and then Baker Mayfield in the playoffs beating you, that
Speaker 2: seats hot. And let me throw one other wrinkle into this,
Speaker 2: what if Philly gets on good authority, You know, if
Speaker 2: this job were to come open. This is where Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick would want to go. Stay in the northeast marquee franchise,
Speaker 2: first round picks all over the defense. His buddy Matt
Speaker 2: Patricia's already there to give him the lay of the land.
Speaker 2: Say what you want about Jalen Hurts better than any
Speaker 2: quarterbacks Belichick's had since Brady go from no wide receivers
Speaker 2: to two star wide receivers. It's something so like Philly
Speaker 2: right now has these different issues. The obvious issue is
Speaker 2: of the fourteen playoff teams, they have the worst defense.
Speaker 2: It's objectively terrible at everything. Everyone cooks them. They had
Speaker 2: as shield. Caapatia pointed this out. They had a ten
Speaker 2: drive stretch against Kyler and Tyrod Taylor. Seven of those
Speaker 2: ten went for touchdowns. The defense had no answers. That's
Speaker 2: not getting fixed this year. Okay, that is the obvious
Speaker 2: flashing red light problem. That next pretty obvious problem is
Speaker 2: this coach doesn't know what he's doing right now. Can't
Speaker 2: switch gears. And when I said I want to see
Speaker 2: how Nick Sirianni deals with adversity, we know how he
Speaker 2: deals with success like a pugnacious child. How does he
Speaker 2: deal with adversity right now, the answer is not great.
Speaker 2: We know those things, and then demand'say, there's the problem
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily a problem. Let's call it a concern,
Speaker 2: a question that you almost have to whisper, you don't
Speaker 2: want to say too loud. But it's bigger long term
Speaker 2: than any of the other issues I just mentioned for
Speaker 2: the Eagles, and that's this one. How good actually is
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts? Are are we sure? Hey, Jalen Hurts? Are
Speaker 2: we sure? Great? That Colhard brought this up?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Kevin Clark brought this up? Pardon me? And it's an
Speaker 2: interesting take, which is right now, close your eyes and
Speaker 2: imagine the three best Jaialen Hurts moments this year. Just
Speaker 2: think about what you see when you do that, and
Speaker 2: then answer this question. Was he playing football or at
Speaker 2: a press conference? Oh? Oh, I'm just asking. I'm just
Speaker 2: asking when I asked you? Is Kevin Clark's point? But
Speaker 2: it's a good one. If I ask you, what is?
Speaker 2: What are your favorite Jalen Hurts moments? Does a play
Speaker 2: come to mind? Or does a quote come to mind?
Speaker 2: Because right now I think it's a quote. I think
Speaker 2: it's a few quotes, and they're all good, and so
Speaker 2: you have to at least consider the fact in college,
Speaker 2: nobody thought this guy was a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: He wasn't drafted like he was a franchise quarterback in
Speaker 2: the NFL. His first and second year in the league,
Speaker 2: he didn't look like a franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: This year, with the league's best offensive line, two of
Speaker 2: the best receivers, he's not playing like a franchise quarterback
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Was last year in aberration. It's a concern.
Speaker 2: Now the counterpoint to that is watch the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Turn on the Super Bowl and tell me what you think.
Speaker 2: That is the counterpoint to that. So I'm not saying
Speaker 2: this is a definitive take, but it's a concern. It's
Speaker 2: a concern, and so too long didn't listen. Uh, Jalen Hurt,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The Eagles are cooked. And some people say
Speaker 2: it's the curse of Big Dom. Other people say it's
Speaker 2: the curse of Sirianni cursing out Chiefs fans. I don't know, well,
Speaker 2: you know it's one of the other, but it's it's
Speaker 2: gone downhill since those moments. All right next Amanse.
Speaker 3: So the Dolphins are coming off of two embarrassing losses,
Speaker 3: are now heading in Kansas City for their first playoff game.
Speaker 3: Miami can't beat a playoff team and hasn't had the whatever,
Speaker 3: can't win on the road and have major injuries. So
Speaker 3: congrats to making it to the divisional round or do
Speaker 3: you think it will actually get a little chippy? You
Speaker 3: want to celebrate now?
Speaker 2: Oh, listen, this is the the Dolphins fifteen days ago
Speaker 2: were playing, or sixteen days ago we're playing to be
Speaker 2: the number one seed in the conference. If you were
Speaker 2: to tell the Chiefs two weeks ago who they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to play in Round one, the Dolphins would not
Speaker 2: have been the top pick going into the weekend. They
Speaker 2: could have been playing in Round one Houston, Indy. Theoretically Buffalo,
Speaker 2: but it was gonna be very, very difficult for Buffalo
Speaker 2: to stay the sixth seed going into Pittsburgh. If Buffalo
Speaker 2: had lost that game, it would have been Pittsburgh or
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. I'm here to tell you, I'm glad it's
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, and it's not because they're no good. It's
Speaker 2: because they demand the Chiefs respect and attention in a
Speaker 2: way Indy or Pittsburgh wouldn't have. And I believe this
Speaker 2: Chiefs team, with your full with your full attention, is
Speaker 2: as good as any team in the league. Think of
Speaker 2: demanse the worst games for the Chiefs this year. What
Speaker 2: do they all have in common? Teams The Chiefs didn't
Speaker 2: take seriously the Broncos. They've beaten them fifteen times in
Speaker 2: a row, or sixteen times in a row. The Broncos
Speaker 2: beat them. The Raiders, they'd beaten the Raiders thirteen out
Speaker 2: of fourteen games. They didn't take them seriously. They got
Speaker 2: them the Packers, who now are actually good, but at
Speaker 2: the time looked to be a drift Packers Vieles. Now
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have not looked terrible or even looked bad
Speaker 2: in any of their big games. Now they haven't won
Speaker 2: them all. They've lost a lot of them. Actually. The
Speaker 2: Lions game they lost by a point, the Bills game
Speaker 2: they lost by grand larceny by the officials, the Eagles
Speaker 2: game they lost on a drop at the end right,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins game they of course won. And now the
Speaker 2: Jags will talk more about them in a minute. The
Speaker 2: Jags didn't end up being a great team, but that
Speaker 2: was a team the Chiefs had to take seriously was
Speaker 2: a playoff team from last year and the Chiefs were
Speaker 2: coming up lost. They won that game handling. I think
Speaker 2: the Chiefs I really like how the year ended. I
Speaker 2: there is a symmetry to Week one. Chris Jones isn't playing,
Speaker 2: he's holding out. There's weird vibes, he's in the building,
Speaker 2: he's and the and then the the kind of that's
Speaker 2: the week one of the season. Week eighteen, the entire
Speaker 2: team throws an on field party for Chris Jones getting
Speaker 2: his sack bonus that came from the holdout. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: de Monsey, what's up?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing go ahead on anymore. We recovered
Speaker 3: it with the christ that supposed to be a Foley.
Speaker 2: No so I uh so listen. I like that, And
Speaker 2: now you gotta we gotta see if the health situation
Speaker 2: for Wanya Morris and Donovan Smith. There are two left tackles.
Speaker 2: Donovan's been injured. Wanya gotta cushion in this game. But
Speaker 2: given the Dolphins injuries on the edge, if there's any
Speaker 2: team you can deal with some shaky tackles against, it's
Speaker 2: Miami right now. And I'll be very curious. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead, and bet Tyreek doesn't talk a lot of
Speaker 2: mess this week. Yeah, I think Tyrek the and Tyreek,
Speaker 2: by the way, he got lost in the shuffle of
Speaker 2: the Dolphins Bills ending uh and on the play that
Speaker 2: they called the pass interference penalty, Tyreek dropped the ball,
Speaker 2: but they called pass interference a minute twenty lefts so
Speaker 2: nobody cared if he caught it. I think he scores
Speaker 2: a touchdown instead. It was a stone drop and two
Speaker 2: plays later two was throwing into double coverage to Chase
Speaker 2: Claypool and they lose the game. And so I like
Speaker 2: the spot the Chiefs are in. I like that it's
Speaker 2: going to be the hardest path possible. And I think
Speaker 2: once everybody takes a deep breath and realizes, all right,
Speaker 2: we're now here, and you have a for the most
Speaker 2: part healthy Chiefs team with the best defense Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: has ever had Mahomes still being Mahomes and Andy Reid
Speaker 2: still being Andy Reid. I'll take my chances next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tyreek kill is the only player over there that's
Speaker 3: used to that call weather thoughs.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the oh, thank you, that's another thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean zero degrees with a minus fifteen at kickoff
Speaker 2: from wind chill. That's the other part of this. Miami
Speaker 2: was gonna have the two seed warm weather. They didn't
Speaker 2: look like they wanted to tackle Josh Allen in sixty
Speaker 2: degree weather on Sunday night. Good luck tackling Isaiah Pacheco
Speaker 2: in negative fifteen. Have fun with that, fellas.
Speaker 3: Next. All right, so you've been super high on the
Speaker 3: Cowboys off season and still have them making the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: But your surprise NFC pick was the Rams. I think
Speaker 3: we're gonna show a tweet for those watching on YouTube. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that that was the layout? Is the only reason
Speaker 3: you have La going so far is because there's no
Speaker 3: chance that Dallas can beat San Francisco.
Speaker 2: No, it's listen. I think that that could be a
Speaker 2: really tough matchup for the Niners divisional opponent the Rams
Speaker 2: have been if we were to. So why right now
Speaker 2: do people other than me think the Chiefs are super
Speaker 2: vulnerable because of how they finished the year five and
Speaker 2: five in the final ten. The Rams are seven and
Speaker 2: one over the second half of the season and the
Speaker 2: one loss was in overtime to Baltimore. A Baltimore team
Speaker 2: that's kicking the teeth in of everybody the Ram. That's
Speaker 2: the Rams' only loss. The Rams beat the Nine in
Speaker 2: the playoffs a few years ago with Stafford playing quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think there is a chance of a little bit
Speaker 2: of rust factor for Brock Purdy having the buye and
Speaker 2: sitting out this past week. I also think you're not
Speaker 2: going to blow out this Rams team, and if you're
Speaker 2: in a close game late, I don't know that I
Speaker 2: trust Purdy at all, So I just think for the Rams.
Speaker 2: It's also why I thought it was a mistake for
Speaker 2: the Niners to not try harder in that game in
Speaker 2: Week eighteen. If the Niners had won that game, the
Speaker 2: Rams would have dropped to the seventh seed. That would
Speaker 2: have meant it's Rams Cowboys in Round one. I think
Speaker 2: everybody would agree with me that right, Well, maybe Lions
Speaker 2: fans wouldn't. But after the Niners, the the two best
Speaker 2: teams in the conference, my opinion, are clearly Dallas and
Speaker 2: then the Rams. By losing that game to the Rams,
Speaker 2: the Niners, I don't want to say guaranteed, but set
Speaker 2: it up to where they're probably gonna have to beat
Speaker 2: both of them. The Rams in round two and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys in round three if you think like I do,
Speaker 2: that the Rams are gonna beat Detroit and so, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the Rams can go to San Francisco and win.
Speaker 2: I think McVeigh, who hasn't had regular season success against Shanahan,
Speaker 2: will be ready for what they've got cooked up there.
Speaker 2: And I think that then Dallas of course does get
Speaker 2: to host the playoffs the rest of the way. But
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now, if it's a Cowboys Niners
Speaker 2: NFC title game in San Francisco, I'll go with Dallas.
Speaker 2: The I'll believe brock Perty's playing in the super Bowl
Speaker 2: when I see him in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: All right, last all right, that was a perfect setup
Speaker 3: for this next one. Yeah, the playoffs on the line.
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence could not get the job done against Tennessee.
Speaker 3: So you were right about him in that second half
Speaker 3: of the playoff game versus Brandon Staley last year, but
Speaker 3: have been pretty much wrong about him for the remainder
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 2: Uh do you do you.
Speaker 3: Want to finally just admit that he's bad? Like, what's
Speaker 3: I can't I don't want to be bad talk about
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2: So you think he's bad? So hold on, you think.
Speaker 3: I do think that I think that his team's now winning.
Speaker 3: I think that I've placed a couple of bets on him,
Speaker 3: and I've watched the games, and drop after drop U
Speaker 3: turno after turnover after turnover. He might be worth Josh
Speaker 3: Allen with the turnovers. I don't know what the ratio is,
Speaker 3: but yeah, man, Trevor Lawrence, let.
Speaker 2: Me add some common sense to real quick.
Speaker 3: And he looked like a franchise quarterback in college, unlike
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurt.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me just add some common sense
Speaker 2: to this. Trevor Lawrence, what's the story? Let me ask
Speaker 2: you this, Demante, what's the story of the NFL season?
Speaker 3: What is quarterback play? All the quarterbacks getting injured?
Speaker 2: There you go, you nailed it. Quarterback injuries. That's the
Speaker 2: story of the Jag season two. Now, I'm not gonna let.
Speaker 3: Trevor off the story, but I am the story for Jalen.
Speaker 2: I am. I am going to Uh, well, it might
Speaker 2: be that's why I said there's concern. I didn't say
Speaker 2: it's over the Let's stay where we're at right here
Speaker 2: for a moment.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence and the Jags were eight and three with
Speaker 2: a lead against Cincinnati to get to nine and three
Speaker 2: on Monday Night football. Up to that point in the season,
Speaker 2: Trevor had three thousand yards passing, sixty eight percent completions,
Speaker 2: a low touchdown interception ratio, fourteen touchdowns to seven picks,
Speaker 2: and a ninety four rating, A somewhat disappointing year when
Speaker 2: I expect him to take an MVP leap. But the
Speaker 2: Jags were a good team that were clearly gonna win
Speaker 2: their division, host another playoff game, maybe get as high
Speaker 2: as the three seed, and see what they could do
Speaker 2: in that football game. Trevor Lawrence got injured. He then
Speaker 2: got injured again when he came back from the injury
Speaker 2: when he shouldn't have from that moment forward, after being
Speaker 2: eight and three going into that game, he did not
Speaker 2: win another game, and in the final four games of
Speaker 2: the year, after having fourteen touchdowns to seven picks, had
Speaker 2: seven touchdowns to seven picks, and after having a sixty
Speaker 2: eight percent completion percentage to drop to sixty a ninety
Speaker 2: four pass rating dropped to seventy four. So what happened
Speaker 2: to the Jags is their quarterback got hurt. That's very
Speaker 2: simple now, that is true. Here's what's also true. He
Speaker 2: needed to be better when he was healthy. Trevor had
Speaker 2: a disappointing year this year. The Jags had a disappointing
Speaker 2: year this year. Trevor was brutal in that Titans game.
Speaker 2: There's no way around that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Do I think he was healthy? Obviously not. But even
Speaker 2: when he was healthy, his lack of ball security is
Speaker 2: a huge problem. The fumbles are a problem. The red
Speaker 2: zone mistakes are a problem for a guy that I
Speaker 2: thought would end this year as a consensus top five quarterback.
Speaker 2: Even if he never got hurt. He never approached that level.
Speaker 2: So is the collapse of the team on him in
Speaker 2: my opinion, No, he got hurt. But even outside of
Speaker 2: the collapse, did he have a disappointing year? Absolutely? Does
Speaker 2: this make you reevaluate whether or not he is a
Speaker 2: no doubt, can't miss superstar. It has to. This is
Speaker 2: a bit of a wasted year.
Speaker 3: And the first yeah, I said there was there was
Speaker 3: the year before. It wasn't it before last year? As
Speaker 3: you said that he.
Speaker 2: Was three years. No, he never sat. I mean he
Speaker 2: played the whole year. Listen. I the I think that
Speaker 2: people have uh unfairly maligned last season for Trevor and
Speaker 2: they have absolutely like twisted themselves in knots to all
Speaker 2: of a sudden make the four touchdown comeback in the
Speaker 2: playoffs something other than an all time great performance, like
Speaker 2: the idea of like, oh, but he dug them in
Speaker 2: the hole. That's the story of every great postseason comeback.
Speaker 2: Teams don't get down twenty plus points without the Only
Speaker 2: time I can think of a team getting down twenty
Speaker 2: plus points in a playoff game early enough to where
Speaker 2: they can come back from it and it not involving
Speaker 2: massive quarterback mistakes is when the Chiefs round twenty four
Speaker 2: to nothing to the Texans because they had a kick
Speaker 2: return fumble, another fumble, and all of a sudden twenty
Speaker 2: four to nothing. Brady's Super Bowl comeback. There was the
Speaker 2: pick six, the Andrew Luck twenty seven point comeback against
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. He had I think three interceptions early in
Speaker 2: that game. Like that's how these comebacks happen. The quarterback
Speaker 2: usually makes a bunch of mistakes and then rallies them back. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: you can't get down three or four scores with enough
Speaker 2: time left two come back unless some someone has made
Speaker 2: some grievous errors. With all that said, he didn't play
Speaker 2: well enough this year. Now, I don't look at this
Speaker 2: as just an unmitigated collapse, because there is a clear
Speaker 2: line of demarcation. We all saw him get folded on
Speaker 2: Monday night football, hobble to the locker room and be
Speaker 2: a different player after that, And after that suffered two
Speaker 2: more injuries, a head injury and a shoulder injury. We
Speaker 2: all saw that. But even without that, he needed to
Speaker 2: be better. And all of a sudden, when going into
Speaker 2: this year, you had a very clear top four quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in the AFC of Mahomes, Lamar, Burrow and Allen. You
Speaker 2: can argue about the ranking. My thought was, and that's
Speaker 2: just the AFC, Trevor would cement himself in that group
Speaker 2: instead a different AFC AFC South quarterback probably did in CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud And that's in his own division. So that's where
Speaker 2: we're at on Trevor Lawrence. And is it possible that
Speaker 2: he's not gonna be as great as I believed he
Speaker 2: was gonna be coming out of Clemson. It's possible. Do
Speaker 2: I think his story is written unequivocally not quick break
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Speaker 2: maybe in what if? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, first off, we got the Commanders. Ron Rivere
Speaker 3: is out with the most cap space, the number two pick,
Speaker 3: and the Warriors architect Bob Myers coming in to lead
Speaker 3: the way. Washington is arguably the best coaching job in football. Well,
Speaker 3: the Commanders turn it around next year or soon.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no. First of all, I disagree
Speaker 2: with the premise. I think the I think the best
Speaker 2: coaching vacancy should be Chicago's. But maybe they're gonna make
Speaker 2: a mistake and keep Eberfluse. But I mean, you have
Speaker 2: the number one pick, just as much money, better players,
Speaker 2: more picks, all that stuff. The likely next move for
Speaker 2: the Commanders is they draft the wrong quarterback at two.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just kind of like what their history is. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Commanders fans, I don't the I'm not rooting for it,
Speaker 2: but that is the likely likely next move. Maybe they
Speaker 2: saw enough for Eric b Enemy this year, getting whatever
Speaker 2: you could out of Sam Howell. They make him the
Speaker 2: next head coach and pair him with Jaden Daniels at
Speaker 2: number two, and maybe you're cooking with something. Now. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if Jayden Daniels is gonna be a great player,
Speaker 2: but I like his upside more than Drake May. And
Speaker 2: then the what if is, of course that they hire Belichick.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to see Bill Belichick coaching the Commanders,
Speaker 2: and I don't think if you're gonna draft a young quarterback,
Speaker 2: I would not hire Bill Belichick. I would want to
Speaker 2: have a chance for my young quarterback to pair with
Speaker 2: a coach that's gonna be together for ten years, not
Speaker 2: a three year thing like Belichick would be all right.
Speaker 3: Next, so the Falcons. The Falcons sent Arthur Smith packing
Speaker 3: after the blowout. That's they need a quarterback, and they
Speaker 3: have the eighth overall pick. What happens in Atlanta?
Speaker 2: I think the likely thing is they trade for Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: I think that is what makes sense. You trade the
Speaker 2: fortieth pick or whatever their second round pick it's right,
Speaker 2: or thirty nine forty one for Justin Fields, and you
Speaker 2: pair him with all that talent you have, You put
Speaker 2: him in Atlanta on that turf, and you go and
Speaker 2: you see if he can be the best quarterback in
Speaker 2: that division. Maybe they sign Russell Wilson on the cheap
Speaker 2: and try to do that. The what if that I
Speaker 2: would be concerned about is that they are the team
Speaker 2: that signed Jimmy Garoppolo when he gets cut by the Raiders,
Speaker 2: and that would be my concern if I were them.
Speaker 2: I guess it's possible they take the fourth quarterback off
Speaker 2: the board, but I wouldn't want to do that. There's
Speaker 2: two like the I guess it's probably Michael Pinnix, maybe
Speaker 2: Bo Nicks. I wouldn't want either one of them, you know,
Speaker 2: with a top ten pick, So I think they should
Speaker 2: trade for Fields. Low risk, high reward. Signing Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: is not a terrible idea, But Jimmy G's gonna play
Speaker 2: he's gonna trick someone into giving him some money. All right.
Speaker 3: Next are the Patriots might part ways with the goat
Speaker 3: coach this week, Mike vabral has been rumored to be interested.
Speaker 3: What happens next for the Patriots coaching situation? Oh for
Speaker 3: the Patriot No, for Belichick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the most likely outcome is that he
Speaker 2: comes back and they sign Russell Wilson. Like I think
Speaker 2: that is I. I think that works for everybody. The
Speaker 2: defense is really good and gonna get its two best
Speaker 2: players back. They I don't know that they have a
Speaker 2: sure fire slam dunk hire to make if they're they're
Speaker 2: sitting at three, so they might not be able to
Speaker 2: draft the quarterback they wanted. Like, you can stay there,
Speaker 2: draft Marvin Harrison, sign Russell Wilson and try to start
Speaker 2: from there. Maybe, uh, for Belichick, maybe you know, the
Speaker 2: Eagles flame out, fire Nick Sirianni and he goes there.
Speaker 2: That's a job that would be attractive, super attractive for Bill.
Speaker 2: He would get Shule's record, it's a marquee franchise. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have to leave the Northeast. You have all these
Speaker 2: studs on defense, you have great wide receivers, all of it.
Speaker 2: The what if, and I've said this for this is
Speaker 2: norp No no chance he retires record. He wants Shula's record.
Speaker 2: There's no chance he retires. The what if is what
Speaker 2: if the Packers beat the Cowboys in Round one and
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones says, out of here, McCarthy, could he listen?
Speaker 2: People are like Belichick would never work for Jerry Jones,
Speaker 2: his mentor, Bill Parcells did, Jimmy Johnson did on a
Speaker 2: short term thing, it could work. So I think the
Speaker 2: likely is he's What I don't think he's gonna do
Speaker 2: is go coach the Falcons. I just don't think that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen the Belichick, And I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 2: go to the West Coast and coast the coach the Chargers.
Speaker 2: So I don't think those things are gonna happen.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, So Jordan Love led the Packers to
Speaker 3: the playoffs in a do or die game versus the Bears.
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna come on the podcast and say this, now,
Speaker 3: Jordan Love is my guy. You got Trevor Lawrence, and.
Speaker 2: Okay, right now, from that's fine, let's check in on
Speaker 2: that in five years. But go ahead. That's fine, Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, this sounds good.
Speaker 3: This this isn't just the youngest team in the league,
Speaker 3: it's the youngest team to make the playoffs. Ever, what's
Speaker 3: the future in Green Bay?
Speaker 2: It's likely good, not great. No, No, I mean it's
Speaker 2: likely good, not great. I don't the I don't think.
Speaker 2: I think they need to essentially rebuild the defense. But
Speaker 2: those young receivers have come on, and Jordan looked really
Speaker 2: really good this year, especially the second In the second
Speaker 2: half of this year, he looked really really good. So
Speaker 2: I you know, I'll give him credit. Maybe the Packers
Speaker 2: did it again and it's their third straight superstar franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think that is unlikely, but it's on the ball.
Speaker 2: And he had a better first season with Green Bay
Speaker 2: than Rogers did as far as first season as the starter.
Speaker 2: So you've gotta at least believe that's possible. The and
Speaker 2: then the what if is what if next year they're
Speaker 2: the worst team in the division. Because it's on the board.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm picking it, but the Lions, you
Speaker 2: have no reason to think that they are gonna collapse.
Speaker 2: The Vikings, you feel like should have been really good.
Speaker 2: This year with Cousins. They were mediocre this year with
Speaker 2: four other quarterbacks, and the Bears are about to get
Speaker 2: Caleb freaking Williams. So I don't know. It wouldn't be
Speaker 2: they bottom out next year. It would be that seven
Speaker 2: and ten is last place in the NFC North, Like
Speaker 2: that is at least on the you know, on the
Speaker 2: wheel of possibilities. All right, last one.
Speaker 3: Yo, last one. Draymond Green is back in the area.
Speaker 3: He's in the Warriors facility. Uh. He said that he
Speaker 3: and Adam Silver. He and Adam Silver had a chat.
Speaker 3: He told Adam Silver that he was thinking of retirement.
Speaker 3: Adam Silver told him not to do that. It would
Speaker 3: be a rash decision. Are you buying this? All right?
Speaker 2: We're not gonna do likely. Maybe what if on this
Speaker 2: We're just gonna talk about this for a minute. Uh,
Speaker 2: do you know what this? There was once upon a time,
Speaker 2: a long time ago, when Demanse was a teenager. Demanse
Speaker 2: got in trouble and like thirty minutes later, he was
Speaker 2: walking downstairs with a duffel bag and he's like, I
Speaker 2: just I'm leaving. He was like, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: That's what this was. Demanse Draymond Green's like, wait, what
Speaker 2: you know you're telling me I can't punch, kick and
Speaker 2: hit people. I'll just quit. This is this is like
Speaker 2: the wild said it in uh yesterday in his office
Speaker 2: to me, He's like when it's you ground your ten
Speaker 2: year old and he's like, I'm running away. It's like, funny,
Speaker 2: just go to your room for a little bit, like
Speaker 2: shut give me a break, give me a break. This
Speaker 2: is I.
Speaker 3: Really don't like that guy. I really don't.
Speaker 2: I know you don't. I don't. I know you don't.
Speaker 2: But this idea of okay, I'll just quit, give me
Speaker 2: a break. You were never retiring Draymond.
Speaker 3: It's too He's saying it's too much for him, Like
Speaker 3: that'd be like I feel like Stephan Stephen Curry should
Speaker 3: be saying that right now. It's you. You're You're what's
Speaker 3: too much?
Speaker 2: What do you mean what? And it's just it is,
Speaker 2: it is. It's just so ridiculous, man. And sorry if
Speaker 2: the anecdote I told embarrass you, I didn't mean to,
Speaker 2: but I think every teenager's done something like that. Be
Speaker 2: like you know what, I'm out of here, forget you guys.
Speaker 2: But it's just such like a It's it's the basketball
Speaker 2: version of the like someone who's in a relationship and
Speaker 2: every time they get in a fight, it's like we
Speaker 2: broke up. It's like, well you did it. Like again,
Speaker 2: It's just very childish stuff. And I the I don't
Speaker 2: want to be unfair to Draymond, but the I also
Speaker 2: I also, by the way, if I may kind of
Speaker 2: nailed that, this whole indefinite suspension was just a nice
Speaker 2: way of saying ten to fifteen games. Remember like remember
Speaker 2: when the story came out and pop were like, oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, how long is he gonna be out for?
Speaker 2: And I said, probably around ten games. They're gonna call
Speaker 2: it indefinite. And this idea, like this is the the
Speaker 2: the idea that you had real issues that was causing
Speaker 2: this and it was fixed in a month. Like Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I just the I none of
Speaker 2: this really sits right to me. And I'm not big
Speaker 2: on this like pending redemption tour, uh that I'm sure
Speaker 2: we're about to be subjected to. I'm just not all right.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do something that we haven't done before.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do public Defender. But you guys are gonna decide, uh,
Speaker 2: who I'm defending here? So Demanse, Uh, this has to
Speaker 2: do with the Saints Falcons game and the Saints, you know,
Speaker 2: going on their own to score a touchdown of the
Speaker 2: victory formation. Who are the three options for who I
Speaker 2: could be the public defender for? Demanse?
Speaker 3: All right, Chad, So you got Jamis Winston first off
Speaker 3: for going rogue. Secondly you have Dennis Allen for being
Speaker 3: soft and not one to get his guy a touchdown
Speaker 3: at the late at the end. Then you got Arthur
Speaker 3: Smith for being a cry baby. Let us know what
Speaker 3: you guys, will you guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the chat, just put in Winston, Alan or Smith,
Speaker 2: and I'll defend whomever you guys pick. Well or there's
Speaker 2: a poll, pardon me, and so answer that poll in
Speaker 2: the chat. We'll do that, and then you can also
Speaker 2: put some of your questions in the chat and we'll
Speaker 2: do that in the next segment. Quick break, right back,
Speaker 2: we'll right, all right, welcome back in what's right? Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: So Demanse, who has the audience chosen that I should
Speaker 2: be the public defender for on this because it's very
Speaker 2: different approaches that I would take for each client.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, So the audiences seemed to go, We've got
Speaker 3: sixty Jamis Winston right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me give what my quick defense of
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith and Dennis Allen would have been. For Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith if I'm his attorney, it's very simple, buddy. You
Speaker 2: want to run up the score, go ahead and run
Speaker 2: up the score. But you put your guys in kneel
Speaker 2: down formation. And there is an understood courtesy played by
Speaker 2: the defense when the offense is in kneel down, which
Speaker 2: is that we don't hit your players. Greg Sheiano years
Speaker 2: ago had his guys hit people during kneel down formation.
Speaker 2: Everyone hated him for it, said it was unsafe, and
Speaker 2: everybody stopped doing it. So if you're gonna go and
Speaker 2: kneel down formation and take our courtesy of we're not
Speaker 2: playing defense, you can't, then do the okie doke. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what's gonna happen next time a team,
Speaker 2: your team or another's in kneel down, someone's gonna remember
Speaker 2: this and they're gonna light somebody up and everyone's gonna
Speaker 2: be like, why'd you do that? And so that's why
Speaker 2: I was angry. If you want to run a real
Speaker 2: football play and run up the score, so be it.
Speaker 2: So that is the defense if I were Arthur Smith,
Speaker 2: if I'm Dennis Allen for not wanting Jamal Williams to
Speaker 2: get a touchdown. Guys, I understand you guys are thinking
Speaker 2: about Jamal getting a touchdown. I understand that I am
Speaker 2: thinking about the fact that Arthur Smith in about nine
Speaker 2: hours is gonna be fired and probably knows this is
Speaker 2: the last game he's ever coaching as a head coach
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Deep down, he knows he's probably not
Speaker 2: getting another job. He's gonna have to go back to
Speaker 2: being a coordinator, maybe a decade from now he does.
Speaker 2: I don't want his final moment coaching to be us
Speaker 2: running up the score on him. It's not the way
Speaker 2: we should do things. I know it's a rivalry. We've
Speaker 2: already whooped him. We are going to pay this man
Speaker 2: a courtesy. That's the defense of Dennis Allen. Now the
Speaker 2: defense of Jameis Winston from Jameis Winston's attorney. And I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you, guys, bleep you. I don't need
Speaker 2: a defense. You guys don't have the jurisdiction to try
Speaker 2: my client. I don't know if you've checked his contract.
Speaker 2: He's a pending free agent and he ain't coming back
Speaker 2: to this Rinki ink franchise anyway. You know why, you
Speaker 2: guys signed him with the promises that he would get
Speaker 2: a chance to succeed, to succeed Drew Brees, And then
Speaker 2: when you gave him the opportunity, he actually played well,
Speaker 2: and then you went with Derek Carr. I'm sorry you
Speaker 2: went with Taysom Hill and Derek Carr, My guy who
Speaker 2: all the teammates love, can't get on the damn field.
Speaker 2: So no, I'm not saying I even need a defense
Speaker 2: for Jameis Winston. I'm saying James Winston's the hell out
Speaker 2: of here. And in his last moment as a New
Speaker 2: Orleans Saint, he did something for his buddy, Jamal Williams,
Speaker 2: because there's a hell of a better chance he plays
Speaker 2: again with one of these guys who's on the Saints
Speaker 2: right now. Then he plays for this team, this team
Speaker 2: that jerked him around, never gave him a fair shot.
Speaker 2: So he's like, it's like a diplomat is speeding down
Speaker 2: the street. You can pull me over all you want,
Speaker 2: can't do nothing to me. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Cut me? Faster. No, my contract's up. My client's contracts up.
Speaker 2: He doesn't need a defense. He was helping out his guys.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care what Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen, with his
Speaker 2: career thirty five winning percentage, thinks of him. Who cares?
Speaker 2: Bleep you? All right, there's public defender for the day.
Speaker 2: Jack questions quickly.
Speaker 3: Jack questions John Hawkins, Raiders fan. Should we keep Antonio
Speaker 3: Pierce or go after Harball or Gruden?
Speaker 2: Gruden? I assume Gruden's a mistake. You can't rehire John
Speaker 2: Gruden the homophobic, racist emails just because they were a
Speaker 2: few years ago. You're gonna hire his brother. You're not
Speaker 2: hiring Gruden. Harball. You fired the guy for something he did.
Speaker 2: You can't now bring him back. By the way, he
Speaker 2: wasn't that good. Harball would be great. If you can't
Speaker 2: get Harball, keep Antonio Peers. He'll he won't be that expensive.
Speaker 2: The players seem to love him. They played hard for him,
Speaker 2: they played well. See what he can do next.
Speaker 3: Austin Hackett asked, what do you think the Steelers should
Speaker 3: do to take the lead this offseason at quarterback? You know,
Speaker 3: assuming Mason Rudolph doesn't go on until playoff run.
Speaker 2: No, you're just cooked. I mean just you're in no
Speaker 2: man's land, gonna have like the twentieth pick of the draft.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do. You don't want to
Speaker 2: sign Russell Wilson, Just what do you do? You could
Speaker 2: be the team that tries trade for Justin Fields, I guess,
Speaker 2: But I want Justin Fields indoors. Personally, I want him
Speaker 2: in good weather indoors. That's fair. And so I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have a fix for you at quarterback. It
Speaker 2: ain't tiny hands? Can you Pickett tell you that much?
Speaker 3: Next, Luke Schubert said, Nick, is there a player that
Speaker 3: is not in the NFL Hall of Fame that you
Speaker 3: think should have been included?
Speaker 2: Well, there's a handful, But the one that I think
Speaker 2: is going to keep being on the outside looking in
Speaker 2: from contemporary times is Andre Johnson. Now, I think Jamal
Speaker 2: Charles was a Hall of Fame level player, but he
Speaker 2: doesn't have the numbers to back it up, and he's
Speaker 2: not going to get in. Andre Johnson was a top
Speaker 2: two wide receiver in the league for a half decade
Speaker 2: with terrible quarterbacks his whole career. I think he should
Speaker 2: definitely get in before a bunch of these other receivers
Speaker 2: who might get in ahead of him. Go ahead, Demond, Jacob,
Speaker 2: this is for you or dem from Jacob.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jacob him asked demondse what is your ranking on
Speaker 3: which team is going to win the Super Bowl? My
Speaker 3: a f C pick would have to be the Ravens obviously, Uh,
Speaker 3: second pick in the a f C would have to
Speaker 3: be the Browns. NFC East would be either the Cowboys
Speaker 3: or San.
Speaker 2: France said obviously do you just mean.
Speaker 3: No, not NFC's n FC.
Speaker 2: Sorry, so yeah, I got will pick right now.
Speaker 3: My Super Bowl pick right now is Ravens over who over?
Speaker 3: Call it? The San Fran So you don't want to
Speaker 3: say Cowboys? Yea, wait, what did you say?
Speaker 2: Surprise? I wait? The two number one seeds wait to
Speaker 2: go out on a limb. I'm surprised you're not rolling
Speaker 2: with your packers. You said you're a Jordan Love guy.
Speaker 2: Now Jordan is Jake? Is Jake Browning a day one starter?
Speaker 2: Next year he'll be in a quarter what's his contract?
Speaker 2: Hold on? I think so? Hold on, Jake? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean no, if you're the oh no, so he's an
Speaker 2: exclusive rights free agent so that means they get to
Speaker 2: keep him. No, if you're the Bengals, you can't trade him.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's an injury risk, great player, injury risk. You
Speaker 2: got to keep Jake Browning. You just have to. You
Speaker 2: gotta keep Jake Browning and Jake Browning. Yeah, never mind,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk about it. Uh, you gotta.
Speaker 3: Keep destroying me.
Speaker 2: Who's been Jake Browning?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because you play with the Ravens and you run that
Speaker 2: rinky ink offense, and you think your people you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're gonna play little kids who don't understand how to dippen.
Speaker 3: I saw your record on the NFL twenty four Dude,
Speaker 3: I don't think you should be talking.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I haven't even played it? What
Speaker 2: are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Well, you've got twenty one games played. You're like a
Speaker 3: you're like eleven and ten or ten and eleven.
Speaker 2: Oh you have well that I'm not sure, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: the I don't even think I have the new one.
Speaker 2: So maybe I do. Maybe I played it right when
Speaker 2: it came out and I don't remember. I mean, I
Speaker 2: trust you if you say you saw my record, I
Speaker 2: also don't have access to my account anymore. Your sister
Speaker 2: wrecked it for me, your baby sister, not even Diorra.
Speaker 2: Your baby sister logged me, logged me in out of
Speaker 2: my account, trying to watch some stupid show. And now
Speaker 2: it's sending a two factor authentication to a phone I
Speaker 2: don't even have anymore. Such a disaster. I can't even play.
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